{"id":14671,"date":"2017-09-14T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=14671"},"modified":"2017-11-01T19:13:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T19:13:01","slug":"no-smartphone-revolution-new-iphone-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/opinion\/no-smartphone-revolution-new-iphone-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"No smartphone revolution after new iPhone launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The high price tag and lack of truly revolutionary features might have people clinging to their older phones.<\/em><\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>September\u2019s wildly anticipated launch of the new iPhone 8 and iPhone X (pronounced \u201c10\u201d) gave the world a glimpse into Apple\u2019s new view of what has been called the most successful consumer electronics product ever released.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14683\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/X.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14683\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/X-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/X-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/X-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/X-580x435.jpg 580w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/X-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/X.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Apple smartphones were September\u2019s wildly anticipated launch. Photo credit: Apple Insider<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But beyond the hype and the hefty US$999 price tag for the base model, what did the new iPhone have that was actually new and revolutionary?<\/p>\n<p>Several news outlets said the launch of the new phone \u2013including the initial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/united-states\/losing-face-apples-facial-recognition-feature-glitches-during-launch-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">failure to work<\/a> of the facial recognition feature replacing the Touch ID system\u2013 was somewhat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/apples-disappointing-iphone-x-could-mean-people-will-keep-clinging-to-older-phones-2017-09-13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disappointing<\/a> from a market point of view as the high price tag and lack of truly revolutionary features might have people clinging to their older phones.<\/p>\n<h6>An iPhone with a twist<\/h6>\n<p>The phone itself, launched to celebrate the 10<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the original iPhone, signals a big departure from previous Apple design cues as it eschews the classic aluminium frame for a \u201cglass sandwich\u201d body that has some potential users already worrying about dropping a thousand-dollar piece of glass to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>But most of the new technology embedded on the new phone \u2013Apple will start taking preorders for the device on Oct. 27- is only new to Apple and has been around for a few years on the devices of other brands such as Samsung (Glass body, wireless charging, facial recognition) HTC (dual cameras) and the like.<\/p>\n<p>We are still waiting for flexible screens and next-gen wearable technology for the next revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high price tag and lack of truly revolutionary features  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[355,354,357,356],"class_list":["post-14671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-apple","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-8","tag-iphone-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14684,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671\/revisions\/14684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}